bubonic plague

English

Noun

bubonic plague (uncountable)

(medicine) A contagious, often fatal, epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted by the bite of fleas from an infected person or rodent, especially a rat, and characterized by delirium, chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of buboes.

Translations

disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis

Afrikaans: builepes, pasteurellose
Danish: byldepest c
Dutch: builenpest c
Faroese: svullapest f
Finnish: paiserutto (fi)
French: peste bubonique (fr) f
Georgian: შავი ჭირი (šavi č̣iri), ჟამი (ka) (žami)
German: Beulenpest (de) f
Greek: βουβωνική πανώλη f (vouvonikí panóli)
Khmer: រោគប៉ែស្ដ (rouk paehdɑɑ)

Lithuanian: buboninis maras m
Maori: mate pūponiki
Navajo: dlóóʼ binaalniih
Norwegian:
Bokmål: byllepest m, f

Nynorsk: byllepest m, f
Portuguese: peste bubónica f (Portugal), peste bubônica f (Brazil)
Russian: бубо́нная чума́ f (bubónnaja čumá)
Spanish: peste bubónica f
Turkish: hıyarcıklı veba

See also

Black Death

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